can say but this word, FATHER, it doth me more good than when I call
him by any other scripture name.

It is worth your noting, that to call God by his relative title was
rare among the saints in Old Testament times; but now in New
Testament times, he is called by no name so often as this, both by
the Lord Jesus Christ himself and by the apostles afterwards. Indeed
the Lord Jesus was he that first made this name common among the
saints, and that taught them in their discourses, in their prayers,
and in their writings, so much to use it; it being more pleasing to,
and discovering more plainly our interest in God, than any other
expression. For by this one name we are made to understand that all
our mercies are the offspring of God, and that we also who are
called are his children by adoption.

FAITHFULNESS OF GOD.

Faithfulness in him that rules is that which makes Zion rejoice,
because thereby the promises yield milk and honey. For now the
faithful God, that keepeth covenant, performs to his church that
which he told her he would. Wherefore our rivers shall run and our
brooks yield honey and butter. Job 20:17.

Let this teach all God's people to expect, to look, and wait for
good things from the throne. But O, methinks this throne out of
which good comes like a river, who but would be a subject to it? who
but would worship before it?

PRESENCE OF GOD.